[jsword-devel] Update on JSword

[Brian Fernandes]

DM,

Thanks for the really detailed update, good to see search always 
improving with Lucene. I am eagerly awaiting the av11n support, and I 
know only you can pull this off, having said that - if you need any help 
with it, just let me know.

I just filed two BD bugs:
http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BD-144
http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BD-145

I can take a look at fixing these myself (unless they are already fixed 
/ being worked on?), they now affect FireBible users too, since I've 
integrated the book installer from BD. Please let me know if you have 
any thoughts on either (esp where you prefer the button on 144). I had 
raised these on the mailing list earlier but received no response, I 
guess the JIRA is the most appropriate place for them anyway.

Manfred, I couldn't locate the start of your thread, but I assume you 
switching MacSword over to using JSword? Glad to have you over!

In Him,
Brian.

On 05/10/09 5:52 PM, DM Smith wrote:
> I'm working on JSword again after a long time of not being able to.
>
> A couple of notes:
> I've upgraded all the QA tools (e.g. findbugs, checkstyle) and in the 
> process broke the nightly build. I'll fix that shortly.
>
> I am applying patches, fixing bugs, upgrading 3-rd party components 
> and satisfying requests that others have made. I checked in a change 
> for Tonny the other night. (Tonny hopefully you grabbed that. If not 
> you might need to build the jars yourself.)
>
> If you develop on a Mac in Eclipse and have upgraded to Snow Leopard, 
> you'll need to go into Preferences -> Java and delete all the JREs and 
> re-add them. Without doing that, it will not let you run the program 
> w/in Eclipse.
>
> Lucene has just released version 2.9. This is in preparation for the 
> 3.0 release, with the only real difference between the two is that 
> deprecations are being removed. The second minor difference is that 
> 3.0 will require Java 5 as it is introducing Generics into the API 
> (supposedly in a backward compatible, drop-in the new jar, kind of 
> way. We'll see.) I'm working on upgrading to it. Lots has changed 
> internally. The impact to JSword is that our lucene search indexes 
> will need to be rebuilt, requiring us to finish their versioning and 
> handling a version difference in the front-ends.
>
> Speaking of Snow Leopard for Mac OSX. Our policy has been to support 
> old OSes for a long time, but not forever. I.E. the current and two 
> prior. Soon we'll be dropping support for Panther, which came out 6 
> years ago this month. (A year and a half ago Panther was on 23% of all 
> Macs.) This will happen when we go to Lucene 3.0 and Java 5. (Note: 
> Tiger does not install Java 5 but it is available for install. We'll 
> need to provide notes.) I'd still like to release ELEPHANT (see other 
> threads or JIRA for a description) as the last Java 1.4 application.
>
> With the new version of Lucene, I am a new method to PassageTally 
> called getTotal and SearchModifier with (set/get)MaxResults. This 
> optimization will give us a place to hang the total number of hits in 
> a search request when the user only wants to see the top 20 or so. The 
> current code would prioritize all the verses coming back from a search 
> and then sort them. These results were then pruned to the top N 
> verses. Lucene has now simplified how this can happen with its new 
> Collector method. There is a Collector that only retains the hits that 
> have a higher score than the N-th one with the lowest score, but 
> counts all of them. PassageTally is at its best when it is small. So 
> now only the top N are put into the PassageTally and the total hits 
> are recorded.
>
> Lucene has also introduced new Arabic and Persian analyzers. These 
> will make searches on those much nicer. I'll need some testing 
> volunteers for that when I've got it all checked in.
>
> In His Service,
>     DM Smith
>
>
>
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